Re: Artificial Avatars

From: David H. Leserman (david@leserman.com)
Date: 01/23/02


Richard,

If your interested in AI work that hasn't been but
could be applied, check out Barbara Hayes-Roth's
work with Smart Interactive Characters at
http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/bhr/.

David
Boulder, Colorado, USA

At 04:13 PM 1/22/02 -0500, Edward Shanken wrote:

>If you're not familiar with it already, you might also check the work of
>Myron Kreuger, a pioneer of VR, who created computer controlled interactive
>environments beginning in the early 1970s, and the A-Life work of
>multimedia artists Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau.  Neither is
>applied to dance, but could be...
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>Eddie
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>:::::::::22/01/02::::0:28 +0000::::Richard Widgery:::::::::
> >Has anyone used AI technology in the creation of dance performances?
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>Hello,
>I have done some experiments in this field, with a real dancer and an
>artificial creature that learned the dancer's movements, using a
>camera. With the bias that the creature was not humanoid, but looked
>and behaved more like a cloud.
>http://www.gratin.org/as/txts/sparks.html
>Also, I have done some pieces, not designed for performance, but as
>autonomous pieces. Humanoid (or at least, having a "real" body):
>http://www.gratin.org/as/avecdetermination/
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>I think that autonomous artificial entities are a very rich and
>underexplored aspect of dance, and I would really much like to find
>someone, on the dance side, ready to work on a real project around
>this with me.
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>Thank you,
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>            Antoine



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